I guess it is okay to say "the OC" now... (Orange: live, moving)

[bowneline]

Originally Posted by A_Lexus

Hard to listen to someone say "like" before every other word too, but such is the way many people talk today. I consider "the OC" to be a similar practice. It's just how people talk now. I don't like it either.

That is kinda how I feel about it. I don't like it, but it is prevelant enough now where I'm not going to correct someone or roll my eyes at this point. I'll just have to live with it, I guess, despite how annoying it is.

It is kinda nice when I hear someone actually say "OC," because I know I am dealing with a hardcore, old-timer.

Originally Posted by radiojunkie2006

The use of "Cali" always frosts me! Though I'll use "Frisco" to frost the San Franciscans!

With "the OC," unlike "Cali" or "Frisco," people living here actually use it. I've literally never heard someone from California use the term "Cali." But, with "the OC," it seems, unfortunatly, that it is common for people living here (even for a long, long time) to say "the OC."

[radiojunkie2006]

My 28 year old daughter who was born in Santa Ana but raised in Chicago sometimes uses 'Cali' and I constantly correct her. Maybe she'll quit after we move back this January.

[robabeatle]

Might as well get used to it. I mean come on, this is the only place in the country that I have been that uses "the" before referring to a highway, e.g. "the 405."

Or maybe OC has become such a caricature of itself that it is now really "the OC."

[DewDropInn]

Originally Posted by robabeatle

Might as well get used to it.

Not as long as Fontucky, Ol' Wanderer, a few others and I have breath.

[Avalon08]

Originally Posted by robabeatle

Might as well get used to it. I mean come on, this is the only place in the country that I have been that uses "the" before referring to a highway, e.g. "the 405."

Or maybe OC has become such a caricature of itself that it is now really "the OC."

I think I actually heard one of the "housewives" say "THE OC" on the reunion show the other night. I was shocked! I lived there for two years and have never heard any locals use that term.

Thanks for the comment about the freeways. I never heard anyone use "the" in front of a route number until I moved to Cali....I mean, the OC....well, you get my drift.

[Podo944]

Originally Posted by bowneline

I grew up in Orange County and we would commonly call the it "OC."

Things came to a head the other day when my co-worker, who grew up in Orange County, used the phrase "the OC," several times in a conversation. I asked her about it and she said that it seems like most people say "the OC" now, so she just must have subconciously switched over.

So, the show has been gone and forgotten for years, but I guess the phrase is here to stay. I'm sticking to "OC," though.

Just another first world problem!

[Coldjensens]

People use "the OC" and "Cali" because they thinnk it makes them sound like cool and hip insiders.

In reality it makes them sound like dorks.

Reeal cool and hip insiders either hate it. (About 60%)

Ignore it and don't care (about 25%)

Jump on the badnwagon (about 15%).

Actually the last group should be 0% becuase people who use "the OC or Cali are not cool and hip.


Caveat: You can still be cool and hip when using Cali if you are talking about the city in Columbia.

[Donn2390]

The best way to tell if someone doesn't live in OC, is the hear them call it The OC. It shows they are a classless foreigner and not someone who lives in OC....
It is NEVER OK to call it The OC....!

[DinsdalePirahna]

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

People use "the OC" and "Cali" because they thinnk it makes them sound like cool and hip insiders.

In reality it makes them sound like dorks.

Reeal cool and hip insiders either hate it. (About 60%)

Ignore it and don't care (about 25%)

Jump on the badnwagon (about 15%).

Actually the last group should be 0% becuase people who use "the OC or Cali are not cool and hip.


Caveat: You can still be cool and hip when using Cali if you are talking about the city in Columbia.

Yep. that pretty much sums it up.

[denverian]

Originally Posted by Avalon08

I think I actually heard one of the "housewives" say "THE OC" on the reunion show the other night. I was shocked! I lived there for two years and have never heard any locals use that term.

Thanks for the comment about the freeways. I never heard anyone use "the" in front of a route number until I moved to Cali....I mean, the OC....well, you get my drift.

lol! I moved to Denver 5 years ago from OC and still have to say "the" before freeway names. Everyone else sounds odd to me. Although there are so many Californians here, I hear people refer to "the 70, the 25", etc. and even on traffic reports.

My guess about the use of "the" is just because there are so many freeways that when you give directions, it's easier. "You take SR 55 to SR 91, then get on I-605 north to I-105 west..." It's just too cumbersome. Easier to say, "Take the 55 to the 91 to the 605 to the 105". And in other countries I've been to, they use "the". I lived in Germany and we always referred to autobahns that way. "Take the A-6 to the A-67", and in England the same thing.